General CommentI think their saying to open up your mind to its full potential and look around you and not to be close minded and you can be happy by knowing what's around you and what your possiblys are . Hope that makes sense to you

Song MeaningThis has been bugging me since the song came out. I love it, but "cynical" just doesn't make any sense at all. I figure either they were stuck for a word that worked, poetically and lyrically, and finally just stuck "cynical" in there, or it was a language issue.

They're Swedish, and often foreign songwriters write lyrics in their native language and translate them to english. Once in a while they'll get a clinker where a word is a synonym in some uses, but not the one in the context of the song.

So I keep trying to figure out what word they might have mistranslated to end up with "Cynical" - maybe something like "cautious" or "discerning"? Being less gullible and not as trusting?